Microsoft began testing a quieter Windows 11 Widgets experience on May 1, 2026, in Insider Experimental builds, changing the board so it opens to user-selected widgets instead of the MSN-powered Discover feed and no longer launches merely because the pointer drifts over the taskbar weather icon...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview quietly replaces one of the operating system’s most stubborn visual leftovers: the Windows 8-era loading spinner shown during sign-in, sign-out, restart, and shutdown flows. The change, spotted in Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8289...